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Usually if you need to have your blood tested it means going to a doctor's office having some blood drawn and then waiting a while---the blood is sent to a central laboratory and then the results come back in a few days or so. ... Read More...

Lab on a chip, how common. How about lab on a stamp. Scientists at Harvard are experimenting with paper as a material for making tiny sensors. Paper is cheap and it turns out it can do a lot of things like separating different molecules. You've ... Read More...

How would you feel about a robot bug crawling inside of you? At Carnegie Mellon Univeristy, scientists are making a medical robot that can do just that, but it's not just to gross you out! The Bugbot is a very tiny robot with six legs ... Read More...

Our brain cells are changing all the time. They're full of chemicals that send messages from one cell to another, but they're much faster than the telephone! If scientists had a way of looking at those chemicals in our brains as they change, it would ... Read More...